Focus on Energy visiting Plymouth businesses
The Sheboygan Press
Its efforts help Wisconsin residents and businesses manage rising energy costs, promote in-state economic development, protect our environment and control Wisconsin’s growing demand for electricity and natural gas. For more information call 800-762 …
Wisconsin’s beer output flattens
Green Bay Press Gazette
As Wisconsin comes off the biggest beer-drinking holiday of the year, excise tax figures from the state Department of Revenue show that its beer production is flat. … Rowland said her business, which includes a tavern, could still be stronger. She …
Extreme Heat Bakes Midwest, Parts of East Coast
CNBC.com
An unrelenting heat wave blasted half of the U.S., leaving highways buckled in Illinois and Wisconsin and power out across parts of the mid-Atlantic. … By attacking business networks, hackers are accessing company secrets and confidential strategies.
Saukville Business to Hold Cancer Research Fundraiser
Patch.com
American Cancer Society’s ‘Bark for Life’ gives a chance for canine involvement in finding a cure.
Success of Wisconsin smoking ban goes beyond financial costs
Green Bay Press Gazette
And businesses seem to be on board. Fewer than 1 percent of businesses have had compliance issues, according to SmokeFree Wisconsin. In other words, we consider the 2-year-old smoking ban a success. And we’re not alone. One year after the ban went …
Report: Illinois Medicaid suspends Planned Parenthood doctor’s payments …
Chicago Tribune
Crain’s Chicago Business reports (http://tinyurl.com/6vmpgqx ) that more than $3 million in Medicaid funds went to Dr. Caroline Hoke in fiscal year 2009. The business journal says that made Hoke the Illinois program’s second-highest-paid doctor …
Big rewards, less job security for college leaders
Chicago Daily Herald
Helicopter parents, impatient trustees, overworked professors, entitled athletics boosters and deeply partisan lawmakers with little cash to spare. It’s enough to make people wonder why anyone would want the job of college president. When it comes to …
Letter: Insurance reform is needed
The State Journal-Register
Worker safety and well-being should drive any discussion about reforms to the Illinois workers’ compensation system. Regrettably, The State Journal-Register’s recent editorial (“State can do more to be friendly to business,” Tuesday) blamed workers …
Here is the latest Illinois news from The Associated Press
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO (AP) —A published report says Illinois Medicaid’s inspector general is investigating the billing practices of Planned Parenthood’s Illinois medical director. Crain’s Chicago Business reports that more than $3 million in Medicaid funds went to …
Whole Foods Market & Others Planning Layoffs In Illinois
Chicagoist
Earlier this week we learned that Walmart was looking to bring its business to the Little Village and Back Of The Yards neighborhoods in Chicago, employing more than 100. Today’s news is less positive on the jobs front: Whole Foods Market will be …
